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Good morning!
I hope you are having a wonderful start to your Saturday (or whatever time of whatever day it is when you’re reading this). I’m doing great today, I had my first really solid night of sleep all week last night and goddamn, what a difference that can make!
After a pretty chaotic June and July, August felt like such a turnaround. It was chaotic in the sense that I’m pretty sure I’ve singlehandedly kept the energy drink industry alive with how busy I’ve been, but it wasn’t chaotic in the sense that I had a whole bunch of turbulent shit going on in my personal life. The crushing malaise of lockdown aside, the past month has been exciting. We sent AG #145 to print and had it hit shelves, I picked up a third job – I’m back at BLUNT, now wrangling the site as its editor – and I got my second jab, so now I can look forward to being able to get out of the house again once NSW hits 70% vaccination (which they reckon will be around mid-October, but I’m not getting my hopes up there.
Here’s everything I got up to around the Internet last month – and a track from the debut Binki EP, Motor Function, which came out a few weeks ago. I am totally fucking obsessed with this record – it feels like a big, explosive bedroom-pop smoothie of Bloc Party, M83, Kid Cudi and Gorillaz. I’m gonna be mad pissed if this dude doesn’t end up headlining festivals by the end of the 2020s.
LITERALLY MY OWN SITE
A heaps rad chat with Tim and Craig of LOSER
CD Review: Willow – Lately I Feel Everything
CD Review: Bleachers – Take The Sadness Out Of Saturday Night
CD Review: Sleater-Kinney – Path Of Wellness
CD Review: Alice Skye – I Feel Better But I Don’t Feel Good
CD Review: The Bronx – Bronx VI
CD Review: Turnstile – Glow On
UNFD: THE OFFICIAL PODCAST
Episode 5: Thornhill (Apple Podcasts | Spotify)
NME
BLUNT
Sleep Waker: Chasing a dream, fighting a nightmare
Lil Lotus: “I remember relating to things I’d never even experienced yet”
Vox Pop: How do the biggest names in alt music deal with stage-fright?
What you should know about UNIFY 2022, according to Luke Logemann
8 bands we’re pretty sure will be on the UNIFY Gathering 2022 lineup
Between You & Me show us what songs to check out after spinning ‘Deadbeat’
The Weekly Riff: August 9th-13th, 2021
The Weekly Riff: August 14th-20th, 2021
The Weekly Riff: August 21st-27th, 2021
Premiere: Sink into the nostalgic haze of Oceans’ new clip for ‘Break My Fall’
Premiere: Mirrors dive into The Ego’s Weight with a razor-sharp new single, ‘Leave Them Behind’
Hollow Front usher in an explosive new era with ‘Treading Water’
AUSTRALIAN GUITAR (via GUITAR WORLD)
Rise Against’s Tim McIlrath: “The world keeps creating an audience for our music”
The Jungle Giants’ Sam Hales: “Lockdown was sad and weird, but it was definitely productive”
Children Collide’s Johnny Mackay: “We were using old, shitty, tiny Fender amps”
Australian Guitar x Bluesfest 2022: Ross Wilson
Australian Guitar x Bluesfest 2022: Hussy Hicks
Australian Guitar x Bluesfest 2022: Jeff Lang
Australian Guitar’s Fresh Frets: Vol. 9
Explore the immortal legacy of Prince in Australian Guitar #144, out today
